Roadmap

Below is the current roadmap of new sections and chapters for Project Management Fundamentals. Please provide your feedback about what you want to see in the next version of the text using the form at the bottom of this page.

Project Management Fundamentals Textbook Roadmap

New Chapter: Risk Management (Oct)

Section: Defining Risks

Content:

Project Risk vs. Operational Risk

Risk Identification

Risk Register

Quantitative Risk Assessment

Qualitative Risk Assessment

Section: Managing Risks

Content:

Risk Management Strategies

Managing negative project risk:

Avoid

Accept

Minimize (Mitigate)

Transfer

Managing positive project risk:

Accept

Enhance

Exploit

Chapter: Reduce Project Time

Update Section: Crashing (Oct)

Provide more detail about crashing so that students don’t have to rely on video as much.

New Chapter: Agile (Nov)

Section: Agile Principals

Section: Scrum

Section: Extreme Programming

Chapter: Project Networks

New Section: Resource Loading and Leveling (Nov)

Content:

Resource Constraint

Resource Loading

Resource Leveling

New Section: Finalizing our Schedule (Dec)

Content:

Modeling

Monte Carlo Analysis

Critical Chain Analysis

Control Schedule

Reestimating

Chapter: Project Management and the Organization (Dec)

New Section: Organizational Culture

Content:

What is Organizational Culture

How does an organization’s culture affect project management efforts.

What tools are available to assess an organization’s culture?

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New Chapter: Change Management (Jan/Feb)

Content:

Change Requests

Corrective Action

Preventative Action

Integrated Change Control

Change Control Board

Change Control Process

Section: Change Management Procedures

Content: Change Request Procedure

Future Possibilities

New Chapter: Procurement Management

New Chapter: Professional and Social Responsibility

New Chapter: Project Closure

Student Workbook RoadMap

Obviously, there will be sections added to the student workbook that corresponds to the content that will be added to the textbook sections/chapters described above. In addition, the following labs will be added.